Like every product, there are levels of quality and levels of effectiveness. There are some great generators out there for bicycles. Rim drive generators for intermittent use are not quite as efficient as a hub based generator, but are completely defeatable when not used. The hub based units are really fantastic with very little additional drag. Don't judge all generators by some cheap POS that never worked well. However there is a nugget of truth in the Simpsons clip...
I use the word "additional" drag because the drag of any generator is a function of the load on it. That energy to light the bulbs, charge your iPod etc has to come from somewhere, and in the case of a bicycle headlight generator, the more you load it, the more drag you'll be fighting. Sadly that's a fact of life.
Not to mention ad-block...No need to wait for the overloaded ad servers to be queried and spit some vile dreck into your browser that your computer needs to render only to annoy you.
Fortunately there is also safari adblock and chrome adblock so the field is pretty level in that regard. But the parents point is still valid, that speed comes from filtering out the non-desired cruft.
True, that it's game over if you have physical access. But there still is a downside to using windows. If you have physical access and also a working knowledge of the OS and it's functions/vulnerabilities then you are miles ahead of having physical access and a WTF OS in front of you. I could be logged in as root on a linux box and set my wife down and ask her to do some damage; she is harmless because she is lost. On her native computer she can do some damage though.
I'd think ATMs would use some sort of high availability real-time OS like QNX or VXWorks. This is a perfect application for a high-availability OS.
For a lot of what I do it already has. I am always up to date on reading my email and much faster on sending high priority replies. For low priority replies I still wait until I have a proper keyboard in front of me. When I'm lunching by myself I do a lot of surfing on the phone including slashdot. When laying on the couch, the screen navigation features are good enough that if I have a quick surfing need, I'll just pull out the phone rather than walk to my computer.
It's not a complete replacement, but it's way more of a replacement than I imagined it would be with such a tiny screen and no keyboard.
I have a trivial little app that I made and it took apple about two weeks to approve it. Maybe it's because it's a simple app, or maybe things have been improving.
I forgot to add, in addition to having to use an intel mac, you also have to pay to be a developer, $99 a year... Not sure how or if that translates to other countries.
You can write your own app and install it on your own phone (that includes compiling somebodies app that you download from the net), but you have to be a developer to get the appropriate keys to push it to your phone. You can't get an executable from the net and download it to your phone either.
There's also an ad-hoc distribution method where you can share 5 copies of your app with others, but they too have to be registered and there's a key exchange process. so you can't just hand out the app or install just any app.
Neither method is particularly easy, both methods require that you have an intel based mac.
The obvious solution if you don't like Apple's walled garden method is:
1) don't buy one - but you lose out on what is really a very nice phone and internet gadget
2) jailbreak - then you truly own it, but things can and do break and generally don't work as well as with an non-jailbroken phone (in my experience, your mileage may vary).
I do a lot of data acquisition for work and in grad school. I've got lots of my data on my drive. They are written in binary formats of my design. There is lots of repetition, there are no headers, who knows what my data looks like to someone who doesn't know the "decoder ring" to unpack it.
That doesn't mean that my files are kiddie pron or directions to make a dirty bomb.
I've contacted the BBC and asked to pay for access. They currently do not offer anything for me. It's a market with no product. My two options are go with watching the BBC or get a proxy. The proxy costs me about the same as you are paying, and I'd be glad to send that straight to the Bebe if I could.
I've subscribed to a UK proxy so I can watch the BBC here in the states, and while boxee lets me enter a web proxy, it doesn't have any provisions for entering a username and password. At least it didn't a couple weeks ago. I really would love that capability...
For a lot of retail electronics, 10% of retail price is about the price of the raw parts. One half of the retail prices seems like pretty thin margins.
I was assuming that the kindle is much like a polaroid camera, or inkjet printer where the cost of the hardware is subsidized or sold at effectively no profit, and all the money is made in the consumables (the books).
It's not "the guy's" it's Bruce Thigpen. He has made in the last 20 years:
- Planar magnetic loudspeaker with linear magnetic field (magnets on both sides). It's a great speaker if you have arc welders for amps to drive it.
- A fantastic and sort-of affordable air-bearing tonearm. Really great performance and ahead of it's time. Very tweaky to use and constant fiddling to keep level. But a great product.
- Bass whirlybird...Never tried it but man the guy is just crazy enough to pull it off.
Quad would beg to differ. 15 watts was enough in 1957, it should be enough today. And that speaker is still considered by many to be the best or among the best ever made.
Best driven by push-pull class a tube amps. (EL84 is my favorite)
This has the potential to suck for the consumer as people could now mess with our power. But after living in several places over the last decade, and being charged $25-$100 to "turn on" my power which is effectively just a change of name on the record at the central office, I can't say I'm shedding a tear for those folks.
Man, it's a hailstorm of flung turds already and we are only a few posts in.
All the fanbois calm down now....
Ballmer has shown that he in public seems really out of touch, his views on the iPod and iPhone show how what he says isn't the market view. I suspect that he has to say those things, and deep down is actually pretty scared about the iPhone etc. But he can't come out and say, "damn, they really target their niche really well", because that's not his style. Microsoft targets it's niche equally well, business is a sea of Dells running MS OS's, so it's not like he doesn't know about marketing to your core.
Once again he has missed the point, apple machines do cost more, but you get a unique product. There are precious few PC's out there that are concerned with how the back of the unit looks or cable management, etc. Apple is selling a higher caliber piece of gear than the generic best-buy special. Take a look at the apple keyboard vs. any other PC keyboard. You may or may not like the design, but the differences are clear.
With a mac product, you can run ALL software, the converse is not true. That's worth some money to lots of people.
Like any unique product, you will pay for it. but for a lot f people it is worth it.
Ballmer has to say those things regardless of what he believes inside, he's the voice of Microsoft.
Hopefully the screen resolution is higher than the macbook air. That would make it more attractive to me.
By straight looks the air is the clear winner. But honestly, neither is all that practical. The beauty of an ultra-light notebook is largely diluted when you add the weight of a bag, and all the other junk you carry with you. I'll take a slightly larger and heavier and more durable model for less money.
Not really trolling, the problem (unless I'm less informed than I think I am) is that iTunes plus content is still a subset of the total content. So depending on what you want to buy, you may or may not have the option for the high bitrate version. Also the iTunes plus content was an upcharge until recently.
Due to the DRM, I have only been purchasing from Amazon, but now that is changing I may try iTunes. I used to browse for new music on iTunes (because it kicks amazon's butt for browsing for new music) and then if I found something I liked I'd go over to amazon to buy it. Sleazy but it works well.
The larger point in my post is that doing what the GP and I do with iTunes is not the "apple way" and thus we have earned some pain and suffering.
YES!!! You hit it on the head. I have lossless to stream to my airport expresses (some hooked up to an external DAC) and then low compression MP3's for the iPod/iPhone. I have to keep two libraries as well. It's annoying and unnecessary, but what I'm doing isn't the "apple way" either, where I demand a level of performance from my audio that is outside the approved (and sold on iTunes) 128Kbit standard awful sounding MP3's.
I run into this all the time, the Apple way works perfectly if you work "apple's way", if you want to work another way, then you start fighting things.
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Like every product, there are levels of quality and levels of effectiveness. There are some great generators out there for bicycles. Rim drive generators for intermittent use are not quite as efficient as a hub based generator, but are completely defeatable when not used. The hub based units are really fantastic with very little additional drag. Don't judge all generators by some cheap POS that never worked well. However there is a nugget of truth in the Simpsons clip...
I use the word "additional" drag because the drag of any generator is a function of the load on it. That energy to light the bulbs, charge your iPod etc has to come from somewhere, and in the case of a bicycle headlight generator, the more you load it, the more drag you'll be fighting. Sadly that's a fact of life.
Sheldon
Not to mention ad-block...No need to wait for the overloaded ad servers to be queried and spit some vile dreck into your browser that your computer needs to render only to annoy you.
Fortunately there is also safari adblock and chrome adblock so the field is pretty level in that regard. But the parents point is still valid, that speed comes from filtering out the non-desired cruft.
Sheldon
Gnometris isn't rated, I'll never be able to update it...
Sheldon
True, that it's game over if you have physical access. But there still is a downside to using windows. If you have physical access and also a working knowledge of the OS and it's functions/vulnerabilities then you are miles ahead of having physical access and a WTF OS in front of you. I could be logged in as root on a linux box and set my wife down and ask her to do some damage; she is harmless because she is lost. On her native computer she can do some damage though.
I'd think ATMs would use some sort of high availability real-time OS like QNX or VXWorks. This is a perfect application for a high-availability OS.
Sheldon
For a lot of what I do it already has. I am always up to date on reading my email and much faster on sending high priority replies. For low priority replies I still wait until I have a proper keyboard in front of me. When I'm lunching by myself I do a lot of surfing on the phone including slashdot. When laying on the couch, the screen navigation features are good enough that if I have a quick surfing need, I'll just pull out the phone rather than walk to my computer.
It's not a complete replacement, but it's way more of a replacement than I imagined it would be with such a tiny screen and no keyboard.
Sheldon
I have a trivial little app that I made and it took apple about two weeks to approve it. Maybe it's because it's a simple app, or maybe things have been improving.
Sheldon
I forgot to add, in addition to having to use an intel mac, you also have to pay to be a developer, $99 a year... Not sure how or if that translates to other countries.
Sheldon
You can write your own app and install it on your own phone (that includes compiling somebodies app that you download from the net), but you have to be a developer to get the appropriate keys to push it to your phone. You can't get an executable from the net and download it to your phone either.
There's also an ad-hoc distribution method where you can share 5 copies of your app with others, but they too have to be registered and there's a key exchange process. so you can't just hand out the app or install just any app.
Neither method is particularly easy, both methods require that you have an intel based mac.
The obvious solution if you don't like Apple's walled garden method is:
1) don't buy one - but you lose out on what is really a very nice phone and internet gadget
2) jailbreak - then you truly own it, but things can and do break and generally don't work as well as with an non-jailbroken phone (in my experience, your mileage may vary).
Sheldon
Easy here's a list from the past week:
Wainwright walks
Victorian Farm
As an American I'd gladly pay that for the sort of TV you have in the BBC alone. I pay way more than that here and get crap in return for it.
In fact I pay about that much for a UK proxy so I can watch BBC and iTV etc streamed to my computer here in the US.
Sheldon
I do a lot of data acquisition for work and in grad school. I've got lots of my data on my drive. They are written in binary formats of my design. There is lots of repetition, there are no headers, who knows what my data looks like to someone who doesn't know the "decoder ring" to unpack it.
That doesn't mean that my files are kiddie pron or directions to make a dirty bomb.
Sheldon
WTF?!?! You actually READ the article before posting here? Are you lost?
Hello...This is Slashdot...People who read articles are one door to the right... :)
Sheldon
I've contacted the BBC and asked to pay for access. They currently do not offer anything for me. It's a market with no product. My two options are go with watching the BBC or get a proxy. The proxy costs me about the same as you are paying, and I'd be glad to send that straight to the Bebe if I could.
Sheldon
I've subscribed to a UK proxy so I can watch the BBC here in the states, and while boxee lets me enter a web proxy, it doesn't have any provisions for entering a username and password. At least it didn't a couple weeks ago. I really would love that capability...
Sheldon
Usually the shitbags are on the seats.
Sheldon
For a lot of retail electronics, 10% of retail price is about the price of the raw parts. One half of the retail prices seems like pretty thin margins.
I was assuming that the kindle is much like a polaroid camera, or inkjet printer where the cost of the hardware is subsidized or sold at effectively no profit, and all the money is made in the consumables (the books).
Sheldon
Coming out in 2012? GM won't be around by then...
Now you can get beat up in pairs: http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2009/04/get_beaten_up_i.html
Sheldon
It's not "the guy's" it's Bruce Thigpen. He has made in the last 20 years:
- Planar magnetic loudspeaker with linear magnetic field (magnets on both sides). It's a great speaker if you have arc welders for amps to drive it.
- A fantastic and sort-of affordable air-bearing tonearm. Really great performance and ahead of it's time. Very tweaky to use and constant fiddling to keep level. But a great product.
- Bass whirlybird...Never tried it but man the guy is just crazy enough to pull it off.
Sheldon
Quad would beg to differ. 15 watts was enough in 1957, it should be enough today. And that speaker is still considered by many to be the best or among the best ever made.
Best driven by push-pull class a tube amps. (EL84 is my favorite)
Now get off my lawn!
Sheldon
This has the potential to suck for the consumer as people could now mess with our power. But after living in several places over the last decade, and being charged $25-$100 to "turn on" my power which is effectively just a change of name on the record at the central office, I can't say I'm shedding a tear for those folks.
Sheldon
Man, it's a hailstorm of flung turds already and we are only a few posts in.
All the fanbois calm down now....
Ballmer has shown that he in public seems really out of touch, his views on the iPod and iPhone show how what he says isn't the market view. I suspect that he has to say those things, and deep down is actually pretty scared about the iPhone etc. But he can't come out and say, "damn, they really target their niche really well", because that's not his style. Microsoft targets it's niche equally well, business is a sea of Dells running MS OS's, so it's not like he doesn't know about marketing to your core.
Once again he has missed the point, apple machines do cost more, but you get a unique product. There are precious few PC's out there that are concerned with how the back of the unit looks or cable management, etc. Apple is selling a higher caliber piece of gear than the generic best-buy special. Take a look at the apple keyboard vs. any other PC keyboard. You may or may not like the design, but the differences are clear.
With a mac product, you can run ALL software, the converse is not true. That's worth some money to lots of people.
Like any unique product, you will pay for it. but for a lot f people it is worth it.
Ballmer has to say those things regardless of what he believes inside, he's the voice of Microsoft.
Sheldon
I'd bet that a faster render engine WITH ads still loses against a slightly slower one and adblock.
Sheldon
My bad, I've got javascript on the brain today with a side project at work.
please replace javascript with "I want an iChat client"
Sheldon
Hopefully the screen resolution is higher than the macbook air. That would make it more attractive to me.
By straight looks the air is the clear winner. But honestly, neither is all that practical. The beauty of an ultra-light notebook is largely diluted when you add the weight of a bag, and all the other junk you carry with you. I'll take a slightly larger and heavier and more durable model for less money.
Sheldon
Not really trolling, the problem (unless I'm less informed than I think I am) is that iTunes plus content is still a subset of the total content. So depending on what you want to buy, you may or may not have the option for the high bitrate version. Also the iTunes plus content was an upcharge until recently.
Due to the DRM, I have only been purchasing from Amazon, but now that is changing I may try iTunes. I used to browse for new music on iTunes (because it kicks amazon's butt for browsing for new music) and then if I found something I liked I'd go over to amazon to buy it. Sleazy but it works well.
The larger point in my post is that doing what the GP and I do with iTunes is not the "apple way" and thus we have earned some pain and suffering.
Sheldon
YES!!! You hit it on the head. I have lossless to stream to my airport expresses (some hooked up to an external DAC) and then low compression MP3's for the iPod/iPhone. I have to keep two libraries as well. It's annoying and unnecessary, but what I'm doing isn't the "apple way" either, where I demand a level of performance from my audio that is outside the approved (and sold on iTunes) 128Kbit standard awful sounding MP3's.
I run into this all the time, the Apple way works perfectly if you work "apple's way", if you want to work another way, then you start fighting things.
Sheldon